Officer Sasha Cordoba walks to her arraignment Thursday on charges of making false statements in court records and proceedings and conducting an illegal search. (Jefferson Siegel/New York Daily News)

Two NYPD detectives — including one decorated by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg — were arrested Thursday on accusations they fabricated seeing a man with a gun in Washington Heights and repeated the lie on a search warrant and before a grand jury.

Choice, now 40, and who now lives in South Carolina, told the Daily News on Thursday that he couldn't make the $75,000 bail in his case, so the officers' lie cost him eight months on Rikers Island.

"But the D.A., bless her soul, looked at my case and knew something was wrong," Choice said. "She said, 'You can't let them get away with this because if they did this to you how many others have they done it to?'"

The two cops falsely claimed to a prosecutor and in arrest paperwork that the man had threatened someone else with the gun and that they had seen the gun in his waistband, according to prosecutors.

Choice had a gun in a suitcase in his Washington Heights apartment, but he never threatened anyone with it, he told the Daily News.

That day, he got into a fight with a neighbor, who he said worked as a confidential informant for the police, and that neighbor knew about the gun, Choice said.

Ten minutes after that argument, Choice said, "I heard somebody knocking at the door. My girlfriend opened the door and they walked in right past her. She didn't invite them in or nothing... they entered my house without a warrant or search warrant."

One of the cops identified himself as a police officer, the other as an "ACS officer," he said.

He told the officers that "never happened," and claims Desormeau offered him an ultimatum: "Well, I'll make this simple. If you don't tell us where the gun is, we'll take your kids."

"What choice did I have? I told him in was in the suitcase. He went and got it, and I was hauled off after that," Choice said.

Cordoba is accused of lying in a criminal complaint, in a search warrant and in testimony before a grand jury. Desormeau even admitted to the lies in text messages with a friend, officials said.

"Interviews with other witnesses, surveillance video and a copy of text messages" between Desormeau and another person "reveal the defendants lied about the circumstances of the arrest and the defendants had unlawfully searched the apartment and recovered a firearm from another room inside the apartment," prosecutor Kaegan Marie Mays-Williams said.

Once prosecutors learned that, they dismissed the gun charges against Choice.

"Following a thorough investigation by the NYPD's internal affairs Bureau, Detectives Sasha Cordoba and Kevin Desormeau were arrested for making false statements on a gun arrest in 2014," a police spokesman said. "Those officers have now been suspended."

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Cordoba and Desormeau, who were assigned to the Queens South Gang Squad, pleaded not guilty at their arraignment in Manhattan Supreme Court Thursday in front of Justice Melissa Jackson.

Detective Kevin Desormeau (c.) even admitted to the lies in text messages with a friend, officials said. (Jefferson Siegel/New York Daily News)

"These defendants are charged with fabricating the details of an arrest — seemingly out of thin air — in gross violation of their training, NYPD protocol, and the law," said Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance.

Jackson released them both without bail Thursday. They hustled out of the courthouse without commenting.

Cordoba's lawyer, James Moschella, said his client will fight the charges.

"Obviously, our detectives, who have dedicated the last 10 years to protecting the residents of New York City, are appalled at the allegations. But they are just that — allegations, nothing more," he said.

"These detectives are entitled to the same presumption of innocence that we all afforded. They look forward to fighting the charges in court — not in the press — and, ultimately, being vindicated."

Desormeau was awarded the NYPD's Combat Cross, one of the department's highest honors, in 2011 for his role in a Queens gunfight.